The Bjarne quote is basically sales pitch for a recurring rationale to make C++ worse and worse. It was, I suppose, not unreasonable to assume Bjarne was sincere the first time, but that was a long time ago. Here's how it goes:
1. “Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out”
2. However just subsetting the language to get at the smaller one would not be a cleaner language. Instead we must first make a superset language, adding features, then we can subset this new language to reach our smaller but cleaner C++
3. Step one, superset will land in C++ N+1. Planning of that "subset of a superset" will need to wait until we've completed that work.
4. C++ N+1 is an even clunkier behemoth. Rinse and repeat.
I don't understand why people who've seen this happen more than once would stick around. You're not going to get the "smaller and cleaner" language after step two, there is no step two, it's just going to be step one again and then step one again, and then step one again, forever.
1. “Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out”
2. However just subsetting the language to get at the smaller one would not be a cleaner language. Instead we must first make a superset language, adding features, then we can subset this new language to reach our smaller but cleaner C++
3. Step one, superset will land in C++ N+1. Planning of that "subset of a superset" will need to wait until we've completed that work.
4. C++ N+1 is an even clunkier behemoth. Rinse and repeat.
I don't understand why people who've seen this happen more than once would stick around. You're not going to get the "smaller and cleaner" language after step two, there is no step two, it's just going to be step one again and then step one again, and then step one again, forever.